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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COLIN A. STUDDS, OF GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR TO AMERICAN RAILWAYSUPPLY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A JOINT STOCK ASSOCIATION.

COMPARTMENT-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed, March 2, 1910. Serial No. 546327.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, CoLIN A. STUDDS, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Garden City, in the county of Nassau and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Compartment-Case, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in cases adapted for usein ticket ofiices and the like, for holding a large number of differentkinds of tickets, printed slips or other similar devices, but relatesmore particularly to ticket cases designed for use in railway oiiicesfor holding the tickets for cars in which seat reservations are sold, asfor instance, parlor cars, sleeping cars, observation cars and the like,and also for holding the car schedules or diagrams upon which a recordis kept of the tickets sold for each individual seat.

In the ticket offices of large cities it is customary to keep all ormost of the car schedules or cliagrams in one office, while tickets maybe sold not only at this ofiice, but also at numerous other branchoffices. As each ticket is sold, the ticket number is telegraphed ortelephoned to the main office, so that the records on the diagrams maybe complete.

The object of my invention is to simplify the Construction of cases ofthis character, and to render the tickets and diagrams accessible to alarge number of clerks and in a Very convenient and time-saving way.

My improved case is so constructed that it separately receives the cardiagrams or schedules for each day of the week upon each train 'forwhich tickets are sold at the office having the ticket case. The ticketcase is so mounted and is so constructed that any diagram may be removedfrom either side of the case, so that the ticket agents Selling ticketsover the counter may readily gain access to the car diagrams to make theentries thereon and to ascertain the car seats available for sale, and`at the same time, these same car diagrams may be removed from theopposite side of the case by the telephone and telegraph clerks, who arehidden from the view of the persons who may at the time be buyingtickets over the counter. At the ends of the car-diagram case, aremounted the cases containing the tickets to be sold, and these ticketsare accessible from only one side of the diagram case, so that they maybe sold over the counter, but are not accessible to the telephone Figurel is a horizontal section through a case constructed in accordance withmy invention and showing the disposition of the case within the room;Fig. 2 is a front view of the case, the counter being shown in sectionon the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through thecase and taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

My improved ticket case is preferably mounted within the ticket ofiicein such a position that it virtually forms a partition subdividin theofiice into separate rooms or rather 1t separates off a small portion ofthe room. 'In Fig. 1, it is illustrated as positioned within a roomhaving a counter 10, subdividing the room into two portions 11 and 12,the outer portion 11 being for the ticket purchasers and the innerportion 12 being for the ticket agents or ticket-Selling clerks.Extending inwardly from the counter is my improved case which subdividesthe portion or space 12 to form a smaller inner ofiice 13'to whichaccess cannot readily be gained by the public. The two ofi'ice portions12 and 13 are connected by a passageway 14: at the end of my improvedcase. It is, of course, evident that the ticket case might be arrangedin various difierent ways in respect to the counter and the walls, butthe arrangement illustrated in Fig. 1, has been found very convenient.In the specific form illustrated in the drawings, the case is subdividedinto four separate sections 15, 16, 17 and 18, the two terminal sections15 and 18 being adapted to hold tickets, while the two intermediatesections 16 and 17 are designed to hold car schedules or diagrams. Thetwo center sections 16 and 17 are directly in alinement with each other,while the terminal sections 15 and 18 are in the form of wings inclinedforwardly toward the outer or main ticket ofice portion 12. The terminalor wing sections 15 and 18 are closed at the rear and are subdividedinto a plurality of compartments Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

in any suitable manner. The different compartments hold the seatreservations for different destinations, the tickets being held in anysuitable manner. The details of construction of the terminal or wingsections 15 and 18 do not involve any essential portion of my invention.One of the terminal sections, for instance, the section 18, may hold theparlor car tickets, while the opposite terminal section 15 may hold thesleeping car tickets. The two intermediate sections 16 and 17 serve tohold the car diagrams for the cars, the tickets to which are in theadjacent terminal sections; that is, if the sections 15 and 18 be forsleepng and parlor car tickets, respectively, then the sections 16 and17 will be for the sleeping and parlor car diagrams, respectively. Eachsection 16 and 17 is subdivided into a plurality of columns 19, and aplurality of horizontal rows 20 formed by suitable partitions.Preferably, there are seven columns, one for each day of the week andthe names of these days of the week are printed at the ends of thecolumns to properly desgnate them. The number of horizontal rows dependsupon the number of trains for which seat reservations are sold at theparticular station having the ticket case, Each horizontal row isdesignated at the end by an oflicial train number, so that there will bea compartment corresponding to every train leaving the station during acomplete week. As previously stated, the end sections 15 and 18, thatis, the ticket sections, open only toward the ofiice portion 12 and areclosed at the sides toward the rear or back ofiice portion 13. Theintermediate sections 16 and 17 are open at the rear, as well as at thefront, so that the contents of the separate compartments or pigeonholesmay be removed from either end. Each compartment or pigeonhole is ofsuch size as to receive a car diagram of the customary size, and uponwhich diagram are blank spaces corresponding to the several seats in thecar. Thus, the several car diagrams may be taken from either end oftheir respective compartments and are accessible to separate sets ofclerks or employees.

The ticket case proper rests upon a table or counter 21, extending inthe same general direction as the ticket case, and of such width as topresent oppositely-disposed shel'ves or table portions 22 and 23, alongopposite sides thereof. At the rear table or desk portion 23 arenormally seated the telephone and telegraph clerks, who give informationto branch ticket ofiices and to prospective purchasers as to the unsoldseats on any particular train, and who also mark upon the car diagrams,the ticket numbers or the tickets sold for the individual seat at thebranch ticket offices or at other places Where tickets are sold. At thesame time, the clerks or ticket agents in the outer or main otticc 12may readily gain access to the car diagrams so as to give information.to the public over the desk 10, as to the unsold seats, and may markupon the car diagrams the ticket numbers when the tickets are sold. Thetelephone and telegraph clerks are out of the View ot' the public at theouter desk 10, and thus they are not disturbed in their work by thepersons purchasing tickets in the outer oti ice. The car diagrams may beequally accessible to bot-h sets of clerks, but the tickets themselvesare only accessible to the clerks whose business it is to sell them.

The details of Construction of the parts are not at all important andmay be changed or rearranged in any suitable manner.

As illustrated, I utilize the space beneath the table or desk portion-s22 and 23, :for drawers 24, and the spaces between adj acen-t sectionsand at the ends of the terminal sections are utilized as storagecompartments 25, for the reception of extra tickets, diagrams, or anyother articles. These compartments 25 open toward the rear and maynormally be closed by any suitable form of doors or closures 26.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A case having a center section and two side or wing sections set atan angle to saicl center section at the ends of the latter, said centersection being subdivided into a plurality of compartments for cardiagrams, and each compartment being open at both ends to permit theremoval ot' the car diagrams from either end, and said end sectionsbeing adapted to receive tickets and accessible only 'rom the sideforming the obtuse angle with said center section, the tickets withinthe last-mentioned sections being for reservations indicated on said cardiagrams.

2. A case having a main section, a side or end section set at an obtuseangle to said main section, said main section having a plurality ofcompartments forming a plurality of columns and a plurality oftransverse rows, said columns being marked to designate separate timeintervals and said rows being marked to designate separate trains, saidcompartments being adapted to receive car diagrams and being open atboth ends to permit the removal of the car diagrams from either end, andsaid end section` being adapted to receive tickets and subdivided into aplurality of compartments, said last-mentioned compartments being openonly at the inner side of the obtuse angle.-

3. A casing having a main section and an auxiliary section, said mainsection having a plurality of partitions subdividing it into a pluralityof compartments forming a pluraiity of Vertical rows and a plurality ofhorizontal rows, the rows extending n one direction being marked todesignate separate time intervals and the rows extending in the otherdirection being marked to designate separate trains, said com artmentsbeing adapted to receive car being open at both ends to permit theremoval of car diagrams from either end, and

10 said auxiiiary section being adapted to reiagrans and name to thisspecification in the presence of 15 two subscribing witnesses.

COLIN A. STUDDS. Witnesses: v

W. E. EASTMAN, Jr., JULIUs S. ALHs.

